Questions and Thoughts About Many Pages of Reading Invisible Man!

Questions and Thoughts About Many Pages of Reading Invisible Man!

 

            Where we left off there was an explosion in the paint factory. So where we start the narrator wakes up in a machine that looks like the machines that cancer patients are sent through. Any way the narrator is in extreme pain. He’s strapped down. He’s clearly sick. In response what do the doctors do? They electrocute him repeatedly and ignore him. They treat him like a lab rat with no regard to his feelings. At first I thought they put some kind of mind control piece in his brain but as the book went on I doubted it… So he is in this situation and they only let him free when he can’t answer any of their questions. For a while he did not know who he was or even who his mother was. This is the point where they chose to free him. STRANGE DON’T YOU THINK? Let us not forget that they used the narrator as an experiment for some new treatment that was really bazaar.

            Okay. So he’s out. What is he thinking leaving anyway? He can barely walk. He’s talking nonsense but yet he leaves. WEIRD! So he goes on the subway and randomly starts walking through
Harlem. I think he was trying to go back to the Men’s House. Some how he wakes up on the ground and an elderly woman comes to his aid. She takes him into her house and lets him rest then feeds him before he leaves. She gives him an invitation to come back.

            He goes to the Men’s House and hallucinates that he sees Bledsoe and “Baptizes the Rev.” He gets band from the house and has to go back to Mary the old woman.

            She lets him stay with her. Then time passes and he does a whole lot of nothing. Finally we come to the part where he makes a speech and moves a mob into action.

            Brother Jack finds him and reels him in for the cause of a common equal world for all races.{Or is it? No one ever actually says what the mission is of the Brotherhood. They just talk a whole lot of fluff while explaining it.}

            He gets a chance to speak at a rally and wins the crowd but does not impress the brothers. He’s sent to get trained with Brother Hambro for four months and then is appointed head of the Harlem District. {Sketchy. They don’t like his approach or speeches but they start him in a leading position. Not to mention he’s black. I sensed this might be a set up from the beginning.} All goes well for a while but then he gets accused of working for his self interest after falling into a trap that another Brother made. He gets sent away on another assignment as the Brothers investigate. He then goes with a white woman to her home to discuss the ideologies of the brother hood. {Is he stupid? Red flag. HELLO.} After his district fails the brotherhood calls him back to
Harlem.
Clifton a close brother goes missing. All the other members of the Harlem District left or fell out.
Clifton turns out to be selling dolls after going under the radar and then gets arrested.

            This narrator disturbs me considering he still tries to justify the brotherhoods work. Something is clearly not right and he goes back and throws himself into the lions den. HE IS NOT TOO BRIGHT! Why doesn’t he ever just go home? If he did then none of these things would have happened. There are other colleges that he could go to and it wont be the end of the world if he gets a job and is a normal human being. No! He will drive himself to madness with a room full of light bulbs. LOONY? I think so.